| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America. By Margaretta M. Lovell. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. x, 360p. Notes, illustrations, index. $39.95.)

As one of the first advocates for the study of material culture in American studies and in the history of American art, Margaretta M. Lovell remains among its most articulate and persuasive champions. In Art in a Season of Revolution, the author, who is professor of art history and director of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, continues to refine the methods she promoted in one of her earliest courses: the close observation and careful interrogation of paintings, drawings, furniture, architecture, and entire townscapes in order to reach a deep comprehension of colonial American life. This volume is part of the University of Pennsylvania Press series on early American studies (published in partnership with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies), edited by Daniel K. Richter and Kathleen Brown, which explores aspects of early American history and culture (circa 1650–1850).

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